Middle and Late Bronze Age Metal Tools from the Aegean, Eastern ...

Tombs that produced different carpentry/masonry tools are listed in Table 5.3. Though
tool kits are infrequent in mortuary contexts, a few possible examples are highlighted in
bold. These burials have a narrow range of carpentry/masonry implements, though other
tools, like knives, are occasionally found with them.
Period and region Tomb Carpentry/masonry tools found
MBA, Cyprus Lapithos, Tomb 322A 8 single, flat axes; 3 chisels
MBA, Cyprus Lapithos, Tomb 315 4 single, flat axes; 1 chisel
LBA, Cyprus Lapithos, Ayia Anastasia Tomb 2 1 single flat ax, 1 chisel
LBA, Crete Zafer Papoura, Tomb 33
(the “carpenter’s tomb”)
1 chisel, 1 saw
LBA, Crete Kalami, Tomb 2/3 2 chisels, 1 drill
LBA, Crete Olonte or Olous, Tomb 36 5 single, flat axes, 1 chisel
LBA, Islands Cape Staphylos,
Skopelos, “chieftain’s grave”
1 double ax; 1 single, flat ax
MBA, Greek mainland Lefkas, Tomb S, G4 1 narrow chisel; 1 broad chisel; 1
area
long, Minoan-like chisel; 1 saw
MBA, Greek mainland
area
Lefkas, Tomb S, G8 1 chisel, 1 drill or chisel
LBA, Greek Mainland Evangelistria, Chamber Tomb k 1 saw, 1 narrow chisel, 1 broad chisel
LBA, Greek Mainland Mycenae, Chamber Tomb 82 1 double ax, 1 ax-adze
LBA, Greek Mainland Mycenae, Shaft Grave IV, Grave 2 chisels of different size, 1 possible
Circle A
drill
LBA, Greek Mainland Prosymna, Tomb 33 1 chisel, 1 saw
LBA, Greek Mainland Vaphio, tholos, in a cist 1 ax-adze, 1 ceremonial shaft hole ax
(knives and poker also from the cist)
LBA, Greek Mainland Volimidhia, Vorias, Chamber
Tomb 6, pit 5
1 chisel, 1 drill
Date unknown, Calicakoyu, (collection thought 1 chisel; 1 single, flat ax; 1 shaft-hole
Anatolia
to be from a tomb)
ax
Table 5.3: Tombs with multiple carpentry/masonry tools of different types
The Lefkas, Evangelistria and Calicakoyu graves, bolded in Table 5.3, have promising
examples of a carpentry or masonry tool kit in a funerary context. These tombs contained
at least three kinds of implements with different purposes. Mycenae’s Shaft Grave IV in
Grave Circle A also produced a potential implement set of multiple chisel types and a
drill. Likewise, Tomb 33 at Zafer Papoura (near Knossos) provided a set of tools
determined by Evans to belong to a carpenter: a large saw, a broad chisel, and a leaf-
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